Luba Elbaum - January 20, 1982
Nightmares
Are you at ease talking about this?
Huh?
Does it bother you to talk about this?
No, already I'm used to this. I've forgotten because first when I just came nightmares I have a lot. Nightmares. I was in the night screaming and then rushing and my mother and father, my--all was nightmare. Everything was nightmare. Even when I have my daughter in Germany, you know, and I went hard labor and it was--took like two, three days. And then I came the last second I remember, so I was screaming "Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma! Ma!" and I was saying my mother. And when a German lady came in and said "Oh, ??? madchen," because I saw my mother came. And I always saw my mother and I saw my father. Probably the dream, probably. Because I really don't remember too much my sisters and brothers because I was the oldest one. I remember a little bit the name. Just when you start the war, I still remember him. But now more like friends. But after the war I couldn't find nobody. All were gone. Because Lublin, this--that place where we used to live around, most gone. Most are more is like a larger ghetto, more people. But this place, Lublin, Bełżyce is almost--there was most gone.
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